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Pension and Retiree Payments Should be Realigned; USPS Withdrawal From Federal Retiree Health Benefit Plan Terrible Idea ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Enough is enough. Congress must act. The time to act is now and the action to take is to allow the Postal Service's pension overpayments to be transferred to its retiree health benefit fund," said LEAGUE President Mark Strong in a Statement submitted today in the Senate hearing on the Postal Service Crisis. "This would allow the Postal Service to stop closing rural post offices and stop devastating thousands of small rural communities," he added.
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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final regulation amending the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) regulations and also the Federal Employees Health Benefits Acquisition Regulation (FEHBAR). This final regulation makes minor changes to an interim final regulation on the same subject published June 29, 2011. The rule replaces the procedure by which premiums for community rated FEHB carriers are compared with the rates charged to a carrier's similarly sized subscriber groups (SSSGs). The new procedure utilizes a medical loss ratio (MLR) threshold, analogous to that defined in both the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and in Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations and replaces the outdated SSSG methodology with a more modern and transparent calcul...
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Scientists know that plants possess thousands of bioactive compounds, called phytochemicals, that impart health benefits when we eat them. These benefits range from protection of the eye against age-related macular degeneration to preventing the damaging effects of atherosclerosis that lead to heart disease. In fact, scientists believe that phytochemicals might be partially responsible for the excellent health typically seen among people who eat large amounts of plant foods.
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WASHINGTON - Amidst all of this year's furor over collective bargaining for state employees, there has been relatively little public attention devoted to what may be the most tangible loss for them in rewriting the rules: health-care benefits they have long taken for granted. Almost every state that has dealt with public work force issues in 2011 has made substantial reductions to the package of health care that employees will be getting in the future. Some of the changes may seem trivial, such as the cancellation of reimbursements for wart and bunion removal and breast reduction surgery in Oregon.
